An interview with Earl of Devon

Today's Today in Focus was very interesting. I haven't noticed that there are summary articles about the podcast.

‘This is our culture’: what Earl of Devon thinks hereditary peers bring to Lords
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/23/this-is-our-culture-what-earl-of-devon-thinks-hereditary-peers-bring-to-lords

<words>
second chamber = the House of Lords
hereditary (pronunciation) he-reditary
go (noun) [Collins]A go is an attempt at doing something.
affable
litigator (accent)
legislator (accent)
halfway [Collins]Halfway means reasonably.
scrutinise
cross-bencher
appointees
nefarious
warm [Collins] If you warm to a person or an idea, you become fonder of the person or more interested in the idea.
horizon [Collins]Your horizons are the limits of what you want to do or of what you are interested or involved in.
patriarchal (pronunciation)
primogeniture
limerick.
workaday
lightly [quote] I don’t take this lightly
shy [Collins]If you are shy of doing something, you are unwilling to do it because you are afraid of what might happen.
anachronistic [Collins]You say that something is anachronistic when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.

I agree with him. It's regret that it is ended by Tony and Kier who don't understand culture and tradition.
But they should had been changed by themselves before it is abolished. I'm sceptical about life peers. Transparency is needed for life peers as he says.